It's a good thing it was. Thursday we got a phone call from Staff Sgt. Garon Vega.

He told Eyewitness News his 2-year-old son Gio went swimming too, swallowing water.

Soon after, he started getting a fever and had trouble breathing.

After seeing our story on ABC13.com, he took Gio to the ER. It's a good thing they did.

Gio's father said a doctor told him his son would not have made it through the night.

"I feel like I needed to reach out to the parents of little Frankie and tell them, I don't know how to word it, but their little boy saved our little boy's life," Vega said. "There was a purpose. It was an unfortunate thing that happened, but if I had not told my wife that he swallowed the water, and if she had not seen that article, I think we would've ended up dispelling it as a regular sickness."

Drowning is the second leading cause of death among young kids to 14 years old.

There is still a pending autopsy to officially determine the cause of death for little Frankie in Houston.